PRESENT RULER:Brig. HH Maharaja Sri SUKHJIT SINGH Sahib Bahadur, 9th and
present Maharaja of Kapurthala since 1955. (The Villa
Bueno Vista, Kapurthala, Punjab, India, and The Chateau,
Mussoorie, Uttaranchal, India)
born 16th October 1934 in Kapurthala, educated at Doon School,
Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, and then attended the Indian Military
Academy, (I.M.A.) Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, and was commisioned in
1954, as a Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army, rose to the rank
of Brigadier in the Indian Army and won the Maha Vir Chakra (MVC),
the second highest gallantry award in the 1971 Indo-Pak war,
married 1957 in New Delhi, HH Maharani Geeta Devi, born 21st March
1936, daughter of Darbar Shri Ala Vajsur Khachar of Jasdan, and his second wife, Rani
Madhvi Devi, and has issue.

Maharajkumari Gayatri Devi, born June 1959, educated at the
Welham Girls High School at Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal; married
24th August 1989 at New Delhi (div. 2001), Mr. Anand
Bannerjee. (London, England).

Maharajkumari Preeti Devi, born May 1960, educated at the
Welham Girls High School at Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal; married
1stly, 27th December 1987 at New Delhi (div. 1993), Mr. Gautam
Thapar, Vice-Chairman of the Thapar Group of Industries, and
has issue, a daughter, married 2ndly, 20th April 2003 at New
Delhi, Mr. Tarun Kataria. (Singapore)

Shaira Thapar, born 1992.

Tikka Raja Shatrujit Singh, born 27th December 1961,
educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal and
graduated from Hindu College, Delhi University; he is the
Chief Representative in Asia for Moet-Hennessy and Group
Advisor to the French firm, Louis Vuitton, he has pioneered
the entry of Moet Hennessy, LVMH perfumes and cosmetics and
the LVMH fashion group into India, he is also actively
involved in various restoration projects in Punjab and has had
other initiatives undertaken for the protection of India's
Heritage monuments, he was awarded "The Order of Mohammed" by
King Hasan II of Morocco for developing outstanding
relationships, both cultural and economic, with the Kingdom of
Morocco; married 1984 (div.1998), Rajkumari Chandralekha
Kumari [Princess Bijou], daughter of Raja Rudra Pratap Singh
of Bansi, a Taluqdar in U.P. and has issue, an only child, a
son. (B-90 A, Greater Kailash 1, New Delhi, India)

Tikka Rajkumar Suryajit Singh, born 28th May 1990 at New
Delhi, who is currently studying at the Doon School, Dehra
Doon, Uttaranchal.

Maharajkumar Amanjit Singh, born in July 1966, educated at
the Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, died unmarried 10th
November 1991 at Chail, Himachal Pradesh, in a hunting
accident.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded in 1772, the state ranked 5th in the Punjab Darbar (1890).
The founder of the family's fortunes was Sardar Sadhu Singh, who
was an enterprising zamindar, and founded four villages (Ahlu,
Hallu-Sadho, Tor and Chak) in the vicinity of Lahore. The Raja
maintains a military force of 197 cavalry, 829 infantry, and 13
guns, and is entitled to a salute of 11 guns (as of 1892). Rulers
were....

Unknown, married and had issue.

Sardar Sadhu Singh

Sadawah Singh, married a girl of the Kalal caste, and had
issue, four sons.

Sardar Gopal Singh, married and had issue.

Sardar Dewa Singh, married and had issue.

Sardar Badar Singh, married a sister of Sardar Bhag
Singh Halluwalia, a minor Chief of Lahore district,
and had issue. He died 1723.

Sardar Jassa Singh (see below)

Sardar Sadar Singh, married and had issue.

Sardar Lal Singh, married and had issue.

Sardar Mihr Singh

Sardar Manna Singh

Sardar Gurbaksh Singh, married and had issue.

Sardar Kirpal Singh, married and had issue.

Sardar Ladha Singh, married and had issue.

Sardar Bagh Singh (see below)

Sardar JASSA SINGH, 1st Sardar of Kapurthala
1772/1783, born 3rd May 1718 at Ahlu or Ahluwal near Lahore,
Sultan-ul-Qaum [cr.1761], leader of the Ahluwalia misl and of
the Dal Khalsa, which in 1758 proclaimed the sovereignty of
the Sikhs in the Punjab, in 1748, a general assembly of Sikhs
was convened at Amritsar which resolved to consolidate the
sixty-five roving Sikh jathds into one command called the Dal
Khalsa under Jassa Singh, its eleven subdivisions were called
misls (the twelfth misl Phulkiari traced a separate origin), in
April 1754, the Dal Khalsa, under Jassa Singh, routed an
Afghan force from Lahore which had laid siege to Amritsar, in
1757, he attacked the rearguard of Shahzada Taimur Shah who
was marchjing to Lahore after sacking Kanarpur, on 17th
January 1761, he defeated the Marathas at Panipat, on 17th
April 1765, the Sikhs under his command occupied Lahore,
married Rani Raj Kaur, and had issue. He died 20th October
1783 in Amritsar and was cremated at Burj Baba Atal Sahib.

Sardar FATEH SINGH, 3rd Sardar of Kapurthala
1801/1836, born 1784, succeeded to the Ahluwalia chiefship in
1801, took part in almost all the early campaigns of Maharaja
Ranjit Singh - Kasur 1802/1803, Malwa 1806/1808, Kangra 1809,
Multan 1818, Kashmir 1819 and Mankera 1821. He fought in the
battle of Haidru 1813 and held command in the Bhimbar, Rajauri
and Bahawalpur expeditions, in 1806, he acted as the
plenipotentiary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and signed the first
Anglo-Sikh treaty with Lord Lake, he had bestowed upon him the
districts of Dakha, Kot, Jagraoh, Talvandi, Naraingarh and
Raipur after his Malwa campaigns, he married in 1802, and had
issue. He died 20th October 1836 at Kapurthala.

Raja Nihal Singh (qv)

Kanwar Amar Singh, he conspired to usurp
the gaddi and was encouraged in his ambition by Maharaja
Ranjit Singh as well as by his minister, Raja Dhian Singh.
He died 28th March 1841 in a boat accident on the Ravi.

Raja NIHAL SINGH, Raja of Kapurthala 1836/1852, born
10th March 1817, he received the towns of Nur Mahal and Kalal
Majra; in the first Anglo-Sikh war, his sympathies lay with
the Khalsa Darbar and in spite of treaty obligations with the
British, he afforded them little assistance, and he went so
far as to fight on the side of the Sikhs both at Baddoval and
'Alival and for that he was penalized by the British by the
confiscation of his territories south of the Sutlej, he was
granted the title of Raja in 1849, married and had issue. He
died 13th September 1852.

HH Raja-i-Rajgan Raja Sir Randhir Singh Bahadur (see
below)

Kanwar Bikram Singh Bahadur (Photo),
born 1835 at Kapurthala, C.S.I. [cr.1879], Sardar Bahadur
[cr.1858], awarded the Mutiny Medal for his part during the
Indian Mutiny, by commanding a Kapurthala contingent,
present at the Imperial Durbar in Delhi in 1877, where he
was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind medal, Honourary Magistrate
and Honourary Assististant Commissioner for Jullundur
District in 1879, President of the Jullundur Municipal
Board, founder of the Khalsa Akhbar, founder of the Khalsa
Press in Lahore, author of "Upma Sar Granth", founder of the
Singh Sabha, married 1stly, 16th February 1849, and had
issue, two sons and one daughter. He died 8th May 1887 at
Jullundur.

Col. Kanwar Pratap Singh Bahadur (Photo),
born 1871 at Jullundur, K.C.S.I. [cr.1911], C.S.I.
[cr.1909], Honourary Magistrate and Civil Judge, Punjab,
Honourary ADC to the Maharaja of Kapurthala in 1893,
M.L.C. Punjab 1906/1911, Member of the Imperial
Legislative Council 1910/1911, founder of the Punjab
Chiefs' Association, awarded the Delhi Durbar Silver Medal
in 1903, married and had issue, two sons. He died 5th
December 1911.

Maj. Kanwar Jasjit Singh, born 12th April 1893,
educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; Honourary
Magistrate for Jullundur District 1915/1943,
commissioned as Honourary 2nd-Lt., ILF in 1918, attached
to the 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers, served in
Afghanistan and the NWF in 1919, where he received the
Waziristan medal, promoted to Honourary Lieutenant in
1919, Honourary Captain in 1923, and Honourary Major in
1936, Vice-Chairman of the Jullundur District Board,
awarded the Delhi Durbar Silver Medal in 1911, the
Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935, and the Coronation Medal
in 1937, married 1stly, daughter of the Hon. Buta Singh
of Rawalpindi, married 2ndly, daughter of the Jagirdar
of Butari in Ludhiana District, and had issue, three
sons and one daughter. He died 29th March 1943.

Capt. Kanwar Prithvijit Singh, born 11th May 1912,
educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; Royal Military
College, Sandhurst; commissioned as a 2nd-Lieut, IA
(KCIO) in 1932, attached to the 1st Battalion, 7th
Rajput Regiment in 1934, married Bibi Surjit Kaur,
daughter of Sardar Dwarka Nath Singh, Minister,
Kapurthala State, and had adopted issue. He died 1943
at Lucknow.

Kumari Uma Devi, married Lt.-Gen. Daulat Singh IA
(KCIO), born 4th January 1911 (#8) at Lahore, died
22nd November 1963 in a helicopter crash at Poonch,
Director of Military Operations, Army H.Q., India from
April 1952, educated at Government College, Lahore and
at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, commissioned
into the Indian Army on 29th January 1931, and joined
the III Cavalry, he was a Regimental Officer till
1942, when he was selected for the Staff College, he
completed the Staff Course the following year and
afterwards held various Staff and Command
Appointments, including the command of an Armored
Brigade; Member, Delhi Gymkhana Club, New Delhi, son
of Col. Wazir ud-Daula, Rai Bahadur Dina Nath, Prime
Minister of Indore, and had issue, three sons and one
daughter. (35 Aurangzeb Road, New Delhi,
India)

Jitendra Daulat Singh, Diplomat (Indian
Foreign Service), educated at Mayo College, Ajmer;
and at Cambridge, UK; Former Indian Ambassador to
Norway, married Renuka Singh, daughter of
Brigadier Shiv Dayal Singh I.A., and has issue,
one son and one daughter.

Surendra Daulat Singh, born 4th June
1942, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; and St
Stephens College, Delhi B.A. (Hons. in History);
former Banker (BBME, Grindlays etc.), C.E.O.
Executive Search (GKR. Daulat-Singh), married 6th
October 1967, Purnima Bawa, daughter of late Bawa
Gyan Singh of Lahore, and has issue, one son and
two daughters.

Vijayendra Daulat Singh, born 13th June
1946 at Delhi, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer;
passed out at Bishop Cotton School (Ibbetson
House), Simla in 1963; St Stephens College, Delhi;
Chairman of the Institute of Technology and
Management, Gurgaon; married 16th April 1976,
Hareena Singh, daughter of Late Col. Gurbaksh
Singh, and has issue, two sons and one daughter.

Chandrika Devi, born 19th February 1939
at Indore, educated at Maharani Gayatri Devi
Girls' Public School, Jaipur; Lady Irwin College,
New Delhi; married 13th December 1958, Ganesh
Saran Mehra, and has issue, three sons and one
daughter.

Kanwar Madanjit Singh, born 1898, died 1930.

Hon. Raja Sir Daljit Singh, born 7th December 1882 at
Kapurthala, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; K.B.E.
[cr.1919], C.S.I. [cr.1911], Honourary Magistrate for
Jullundur District, M.L.C. (Punjab) 1913/1915, Member of
the Imperial Legislative Council at Calcutta 1913/1915,
Member of the Council of State 1915/1917, Member of the
Third Council of the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab
[14.1.1913] - [19.4.1916], Chief Minister of Jammu and
Kashmir State 1917/1921, awarded the Delhi Durbar silver
medal in 1911, married Rani Jasbir Kaur [Lady Daljit
Singh], born September 1886 at Hansa, Ludhiana, died
December 1938, daughter of Sardar Hardit Singh of Hansa,
and had issue, two sons. He died 6th November 1946.

Rajkumar Atamjit Singh, born 1900, educated at
Aitchison College, Lahore; commissioned in 1925 as
Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army, married and had
issue, one son. He died 1925.

Kanwar Satyajit Singh, born 28th December 1922 at
Jullundur, educated at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla;
and St Stephen's College, Delhi; agriculturist and
Shakespearean actor, married Kumari Kamini Devi
[Kanwarani Kamini Satyajit Singh], born 12th April
1928, died 6th October 1999, daughter of Ishwar Das
Mahendru of Multan, and had issue, one son and one
daughter. He died 22nd November 1980 at Lucknow.

Samarjit Singh (Photo), (Photo),
born 13th December 1997, presently (2013) studying
at the Doon School, Dehradun; he is a National
Junior Champion in Pistol shooting and has
represented India at the International level, he
was a member of the Indian contingent that took
part in the 2nd Youth Asian Ganes held in China in
Aug 2013 and was the Flagbearer for India there;
he has now been selected to represent India to
participate in the Asian Shooting Championship, to
be held in Tehran in Oct 2013.

Kumari Bani Kaur, born 14th September 1965,
married 29th November 1987, Harjit Singh Ahuja,
C.E.O. Forbes, Mumbai; son of Brigadier Gurdial
Singh Ahuja, and has issue, two daughters.

Anahita Kaur Ahuja, born 1989.

Anandita Kaur Ahuja, born 1991.

Raja Padamjit Singh, born 1909, educated at Bishop
Cotton School, Shimla; and Aitchison College, Lahore;
married Padma [Kunwarani Padamjit Singh], daughter of
Sardar Bahadur Kishan Singh Rais of Fatehabad, and had
issue, three daughters. He died 9th January 1971.

Rajkumari Lalita Kumari, born 1932, educated at the
Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla; and at St Bedes
College, Shimla; married Lt.-Gen. Inderjit Khanna,
served in the Indian Army (4th Guards), and has issue,
two daughters.

Rajkumari Anita Singh, born 1939, educated at the
Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla; and at St Bedes
College, Shimla; founder of the Indian Music Society,
Member of the Kapurthala Heritage Trust, Member of the
Governing Council of the Punjabi Academy for the
Government of Delhi, Member of the Governing Council
of the National Media Centre, Member of the Governing
Council of the Punjab Sangeet Natak Academy, Advisor
on Culture and Heritage in the Government of Punjab,
married (div.) Colonel Jitinder Chaudhary, and has
issue, a daughter.

Kumari Haripriya, born 27th August 1964,
married Sardar Govind Singh Mann, son of Sardar
Brijendra Pal Singh Mann of Mogalchak,
Agriculturist, and has issue, three sons.

Gopal Singh Mann

Anant Singh Mann

Varad Singh Mann

Rajkumari Rama Singh, born 1941, educated at the
Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla; and at St Bedes
College, Shimla; married Mohindar Puri, President of
the Punjab, Haryana and Delhi Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, President of Mohindar Puri and Co., and had
issue, one son.

Ambuj Puri, born 1980, died 1992 at
Shimla.

Kumari (name unknown) (elder daughter), married
Sardar Amar Singh of Patiala, and had issue, four
daughters.

Kumari (name unknown) (younger daughter), married
Sardar Devinder Singh of Gurdasar, and had issue, two sons
and one daughter.

Dinesh Dhamija, born 1950, educated at
King's School, Canterbury and at Fitzwilliam
College, Cambridge; married Tani Malhotra, and
has issue, two sons.

Biren Dhamija, educated at Harrow and
London University.

Darun Dhamija, educated at Harrow and
London University.

Sumant Dhamija, born 1952, educated at
Mayo College, Ajmer, at King's School,
Canterbury and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge;
author of 'Jassa
Singh Ahluwalia (1718-83) Forgotten Hero
of Punjab' (Social Science Press 2011),
a biography of the first Maharaja of Kapurthala;
married Iqrup Singh, and has issue, one son and
one daughter.

Kanwar Ratanjit Singh, married Kanwarani Pronoti
Devi, daughter of Sailen Prasad Barooah, an
aristrocrat from the foremost and renowned family of
Assam (Jorhat), and has issue.

(name unknown) Singh, married the daughter
of Kanwar Akshob Singh of Kashipur.

Kumari Pamela Devi [Kunwarani Pamela Prasada of
Shahjehanpur], born 1916, married Kunwar Jyoti Prasada,
Zamindar of Shahjehanpur,
and had issue. She died 2002.

Kumari (name unknown), married Sardar Diwan Singh
of Makandpur (Nikandpur), and had issue. She died 1845.

Sardar Bhagat Singh

HH Raja-i-Rajgan Raja Sir RANDHIR SINGH Bahadur, Raja
of Kapurthala 1852/1870, G.C.S.I. [1864], born in March 1831,
he was granted the title of Raja-Rajgan
in 1862; married 1stly, 21st February 1848, Rani (name
unknown), died 1853, married 2ndly, Rani (name
unknown), died 1857, married 3rdly, Rani (name
unknown) [Lady Randhir Singh], born 1846 (#6), and had issue. He died
2nd April 1870 at Aden.

HH Raja-i-Rajgan Kharak Singh Bahadur (by 1st wife)(see
below)

Hon. Raja Sir Harnam Singh K.C.I.E. (by 1st wife), born
15th November 1851, he managed the Kapurthala Estates in
Oudh for 18 years; Member of Council of Governor-General of
India and of the Imperial Legislative Council 1899/1901;
Legislative Council of Punjab 1901/1903; Member of the Hemp
Drugs Commission in 1892; Honourary Life Secretary of the
British India Association of Taluqdars of Oudh; Fellow of
Punjab University; Member of Council of State for India;
President of the National Missionary Society of India; he
was created a C.I.E. in 1885 and elevated to a K.C.I.E. on
31st December 1898 in recognition of his various public
services, he was granted the title of Raja as a personal
distinction on 1st January 1907, it was made hereditary on
2nd January 1922; he was awarded the Delhi Durbar Silver
Medals in 1903 and 1911; married 1875, Kanwar Rani Sahiba,
and had issue, seven sons and one daughter. He died 20th May
1930.

Raja Sir Maharaj Singh, born 17th May 1878 in
Kapurthala, C.I.E. [cr.1915], Kt. [cr.1933], C.St.J.
[cr.1937]; Governor of Bombay 1948/1952; educated at
Harrow 1891/1896 and at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A.
1900, M.A. 1910); called to the Bar Middle Temple 1902;
appointed Deputy Collector, United Provinces, India 1904;
Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Credit Societies 1908
(Officiating Registrar 1909/10); Assistant Secretary,
Department of Education 1911; Senior Assistant Secretary
1915; Magistrate and Collector 1917; Secretary to
Government of United Provinces 1919; Deputy Secretary to
Government of India 1920; Deputy Commissioner United
Provinces 192; Chief Minister of Jodhpur State 1931; Agent
to Government of India in South Africa 1932; Member of the
Executive Council in UP 1935/1937; Chancellor of Lucknow
University 1941; briefly Prime Minister of Kashmir; he was
awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935,
the King George VI Coronation Medal in 1937 and the Indian
Independence Medal in 1947; in cricket he is noted for
being both the oldest cricketer to make his first class
debut and the oldest player to play the first class game
(aged 72); married February 1918, Rani Gunwati Maya Das,
and had issue, two sons and one daughter. He died 6th June
1959 in Lucknow (#2).

Raja Ranbir Singh, born 11th June 1919, educated at
Bishops School in South Africa and Balliol College,
Oxford. A diplomat for the Indian government serving as
a Charge D’Affaires in Tokyo, Cairo, The Hague and
Dublin, married 1stly, married 2ndly (div.), 22nd April
1967, Catherine Auriole Lycett Green, born 23rd April
1935, daughter of Commander David Cecil Lycett Green,
and his first wife, Angela Courage, and had issue. He
died in June 1996 in New Delhi.

Raja Jai Singh, educated at Harrow School 1965/1970,
living in Florida, USA .

Rajkumar Pratap Singh, educated at Harrow School
1968/1972, living in Bath, England, married and has
issue, one son and one daughter.

Rajkumari Xenia Ranbirsingh, born 9th June 1968,
engaged January 2005 to the Hon. Thomas Philip Watson,
born 1958, son of the late 3rd Baron Manton and of
Mary Baroness Manton (#1).

Rajkumari Tamara Catherine Singh, born 6th May 1970.

Rajkumari Alexia India Singh, born 1972.

Rajkumari Prem Kaur, living in Lucknow, India, married
and has issue.

Arun Seth

Arati Seth

Rajkumar Mahindar Singh, married and had issue. He
died 15th August 2004 in Chandigarh.

Lt. Kunwar Arjan Singh [Billy], a well known
conservationist, born 15th August 1917 in Gorakhpur, he
was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the British
Indian Army and fought in WWII, retiring in 1946 as a
Lieutenant, on his return to India he purchased a farm
on the edge of Dudhwa National Park; he has been
honoured with a number of awards for his conservation
efforts, including the Padma Shri (1995), World
Wildlife gold medal (1996), the Order of the Golden Ark
(1997), and the lifetime award for tiger conservation
(1999), the 28th J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation
Prize (2005) in "recognition of his outstanding
contributions to the protection of tigers and the
Dudhwa reserve", and the Padma Bhushan
(2006); Author of (amongst others), Tara: The
Tigress (1981), The Legend of the Man-Eater
(1993), Tiger Haven (1998), Prince of Cats
(2001) and Watching India's Wildlife (2004). He
died February 2010.

Kunwar Balram Singh (+), married Kanwarani Mira (+)

The Hon'ble Kanwar
Dalip Singh, born 1885.

Hon. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur D.St.J., a politician and
social activist, born 2nd February 1889 in Kapurthala
Palace, Lucknow (#7),
educated at Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset, England,
and at Oxford University, England; she was Secretary, to
Mahatma Gandhi for 18 years; Social Section Secretary, All
India Womens Conference, 1930; Chairwoman, All India
Women's Conference, 1931-1933; President, All India Womens
Conference, 1938; Chairwoman, All India Womens Fund
Association, 1937-1941 and again since 1946; member of the
Indian delegation to UNESCO conferences in London in 1945
and Paris in 1946; first woman member, Advisory Board of
Education (Government of India) from inception till her
resignation in protest in August 1942, she was
re-appointed in 1946; Member, Board of Trustees, All India
Spinners' Association; member of the Indian Delegation to
UNESCO, to London, in November 1945 and as Deputy Leader
to Paris, 1946; she was leader of the Indian Delegation to
W.H.O. conference in 1948 and 1949; Union Minister of
Health 1947/1957; Union Minister of Health and
Communications 1951/1952; Member of the Lok Sabha
1952/1957; Member of the Rajya Sabha 1957/1964; Chief
Commissioner, St. John Ambulance Brigade and
Founder-Member and Chairman, Managing Body of Indian Red
Cross Society for fourteen years;one of the Trustees of
the Gandhi Memorial Fund; President, All-India Committee
of Social Work for 1948-1949; President of the World
Health Assembly 1950 and the International Red Cross
Conference, New Delhi 1957; President, National Sports
Club of India; she founded the Tuberculosis Association of
India and the Central Leprosy Teaching and Research
Institute in Madras; Vice-President, United Council for
Relief and Welfare, New Delhi; served as the Chairperson
of the All India Women’s Education Fund Association;
member of the Executive Committee of Lady Irwin College in
New Delhi; she helped establish the All India Institute of
Medical Sciences in New Delhi, and became its first
president; she also founded the Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
College of Nursing; President of the All India Institute
of Medical Sciences, the Tuberculosis Association of
India, and the St. John’s Ambulance Corps till her death;
she was keenly interested in sports, and won many Tennis
Championships in Simla and Lahore; Author: To Women ; Challenge to Women;
she was awarded the Rene Sand Memorial Award. She died
unmarried, 10th February 1964. ('Manorville,'
Simla West, Himachal Pradesh, India)

HH Raja-i-Rajgan KHARAK SINGH Bahadur, Raja of
Kapurthala 1870/1877, born in August 1849, installed on the gaddi on 12th May 1870,
married and had issue, one son. He died 5th September 1877 at
Bhagsu and was cremated at Kapurthala.

Col. HH Farzand i-Dilband
Rasikhul-Itiqad Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja
Sir JAGATJIT SINGH Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala
1877/1949, born in September 1872 (#5)
or 24th November 1872 (#3),
assumed full ruling powers in November 1890, K.C.S.I.
[cr.1897], G.C.S.I. [cr.1911], G.C.I.E. [cr.1921], G.B.E.
[cr.1927], Maharaja [cr.1911], awarded a salute of 13 guns (15
guns personal), Honorary Colonel of the 45th (Rattreys' Sikhs)
in the Indian Army, and was promoted to be a Brigadier early
in 1943, awarded the Grand Cross of Legion of Honour of France
[1924], Grand Cordon of of Order of the Nile, and Grand Cross
of Orders of Cuba, Chile, Peru and Morocco, Representative of
the League of Nations Assembly in 1926, 1927 and 1929,
appointed Up-Rajpramukh of PEPSU, married 1stly, 16th April
1886 (#3), HH Maharani Harbans
Kaur, daughter of Mian Ranjit Singh Guleria of Poprola,
married 2ndly, a Princess of a Katoch Rajput family from
Kangra, married 3rdly, a Princess of a Rajput family from
Bushahr, died sp in 1959 in Kapurthala, married 4thly,
Rani Kanari, married 5thly, 28th January 1908 (div.), Maharani
Prem Kaur [née Anita Delgado], born 1890 in Malaga, Spain,
died 7th July 1962, married 6thly, 1942, Maharani Tara Devi
[née Evgeniya Grosupova], daughter of a Czech Count, and his
wife, Nina Grosupova, an actress, she commited suicide by
jumping off the Qutub Minar in Delhi, and had issue. He died
19th June 1949 (#4).

Maharajkumar Mahijit Singh (by Maharani Harbans Kaur),
born June 1893, Manager of the Kapurthala estate in Oudh,
Minister of Government in U.P. of Agra and Oudh, married
Maharajkumari Anar Devi of Kangra in Himachal Pradesh, and
had issue. He died 1932.

Rajkumari Usha Devi [later Rani Usha Devi of Dada-Siba],
born 25th October 1919 in Kapurthala, married the late
Raja Harmahendra Singh of Dada-Siba
in Kangra, died May 2000, and had issue. She died 3rd
October 2004 at New Delhi.

Lt.-Col. Maharajkumar Amarjit Singh C.I.E., M.A. (Oxon.)
(by the Katochni Rani), born 5th August 1893 (#9 p.256), educated at
Military Theresianum Academy, Vienna and Christ Church
College, Oxford (Master of Arts); he served in France during
WWI from 1914 to 1916 as a Second Lieutenant in the Indian
Army; Recruiting Officer, Kapurthala State, 1917-18;
Honorary A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief, Indian Army,
1926-1930; British Staff Officer to General Gouraud,
Military Governor, Paris, during his tour of India 1928-29;
promoted to the rank of Honorary Major in the Indian Army in
1930 and to the rank of Lt. Col. in the Indian Army in 1943;
Vice-President of the State Council and Household Minister
to the Maharaja; he was awarded the 1914/15 Star, British
War Medal, Allied Victory Medal, King's Indian Recruiting
Medal, King's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935; the C.I.E. also
in 1935; married 1922, Sophie Adjemoff [Rani Sonia Amarjit
Singh], she died sp
on 4th July 1947. He died sp
in September 1944 at Srinagar.

Maharajkumar Karamjit Singh (by Rani Kanari), born 1896 at
Kapurthala, educated at Harrow 1910/1913 and in France,
appointed Vice President of State Council in 1944, married
1928, Maharajkumari Sita Devi, born 1915, died 2002 in New
Delhi, daughter of Raja Uday Raj Singh of Kashipur, and had issue. He died
7th June 1967.

Rajkumar Shri Arun Singh, born 29th August 1944, B.A.
(Hons.), M.A. (Cantab), educated at Doon School, Dehra
Dun, Uttaranchal, passing out in 1960, graduated from St.
Stephen's College, Delhi University in 1964, Member of the
Rajya Sabha [3.4.1984] - [17.8.1988], Parliamentary
Secretary to the Prime Minister 1984/1985, Union Minister
of State, Department of Defence Research and Development,
1985/1987; married Shrimati Kunwarani Nina Singh and has
issue, two sons and one daughter. (St. Helen’s Cottage,
Mussoorie, Uttar Ranchal, India)

Kumari Devaki Kaur, born 1968 at New Delhi, married
1st October 2006 at New Delhi, Marakand Paranjape, son
of Ramchandra Laxman and Prabhavati Paranjape.

Kunwar Hanut Singh, born 1970, married 1999 at New
Delhi, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bhalla.

Kunwar Anirudh Singh, born 1975 in New Delhi.

Rajkumar Martand Singh, born 1947 at Kapurthala,
educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, passing
out in 1963, graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi
University in 1967.

Maharajkumar Ajit Singh (by Anita), born 26th April 1908,
educated at Clifton College, Bristol from April 1922 to
December 1924, at St Catherine's College, Cambridge
University (University Boxing colours, B.A. 1931) and at the
Military Academy, Dehra Dun; he served with the Paramijit
Infantry, Kapurthala Internal Security 1939/1942, and as
Attaché to the Indian Government Trade Commission to South
America 1942/1946, died unmarried 1982, having issue, one
daughter by Zahra Ajami.

Maha Akhtar, born 1965, worked for a while as a
production assistant for The Cure, the British new wave
rock band, and then for 15 years in New York with veteran
CBS news anchor Dan Rather, she began studying flamenco in
1996, and became a professional flamenco dancer in 2005.

HH Farzand i-Dilband Rasikhul-Itiqad Daulat-i-Inglishia
Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja PARAMJIT SINGH Sahib Bahadur,
Maharaja of Kapurthala 1949/1955, born 18th May 1892, educated
at Harrow 1906/1907, granted the title of Tikka Raja by the
British authorities, President of the State Council,
Colonel-in-Chief of the Paramjit Infantry, married 1stly, HH
Maharani Brinda Devi of Jubbal,
born 11th January 1892 in Jubbal, author of an autobiography,
"Maharani" with Elaine Williams, written in 1951 and later
reprinted in 2001 and given a new title,"Maharani --- the
Memoirs of a Rebellious Princess". She was widely travelled
person who knew Heads of State and famous Hollywood Stars,
died May 1962 at Woodville Palace, Simla, married 2ndly, in
1932, Tikka Rani Sahiba Lilawati Devi of Kangra, died aged 21,
married 3rdly, July 1937, Maharani Narinder Kaur [née Stella
Mudge aka Beady], born 13th October 1904 in Carlton,
Kent, died 23rd February 1984 in Delhi, and had issue. He died
1955.

Maharajkumari
Indira Devi (Princess Indee) (by Maharani Brinda Devi), born
26th February 1912 at Kapurthala, worked in the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London as a news reader
from 1945 to 1968, died unmarried 1979 in Ibitza, Spain.

Maharajkumari Sushila Devi (Princess Shushu) (by Maharani
Brinda Devi), born 14th December 1918 at Kapurthala, married
19th February 1942 (div. 1958), Raja Giriraj Saran Singh of
Bharatpur, and had issue.
She died 1974 in Simla.

Maharajkumari Aas Kaur (by Tikka Rani Sahiba Lilawati
Devi), born in October 1933 at Kapurthala, educated at
Miranda College, Delhi; married 1958 (div.) in Delhi, Mr.
Hari Singh Bhagat, a businessman of New Delhi, and had
issue, one son. She died 1st January 2017 at New Delhi.

The assistance of Kanwar Uday Singh of Jubbal is gratefully
acknowledged, April 2005.The assistance of Kanwar Vishvjit Singh of Kapurthala,
regarding the family of Kanwar Bikrama Singh, is gratefully
acknowledged, June 2005.

7. "The Indian and Pakistan Year Book and Who's Who 1951",
published by Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd., Bombay, p.718 and "The Times of
India Directory and Year Book including Who's Who 1952/1953",
Published by Bennett, Coleman & Co., Bombay. p.684

8. "The Times of India Directory and Year Book including
Who's Who 1952/1953", Published by Bennett, Coleman &
Co., Bombay.9. "Who's Who in India, Burma Ceylon" Edited and
Compiled by Thos. Peters. Deluxe Edition. The Sun Publishing
House. East Street, Poona. De-Luxe Edition. 1938